OAMARU.
Thursday.
The adjourned inquiry into the cause of the recent coach accident, by which Nicholls and young Maitland were killed, took place to-day. Goddrrd, the driver, appeared in Court with his lead bandaged up. He gave evidence that when the coach descended' the horse range, about two or three hundred yardj, the trace on the off-side of the pole horse came loose, and this caused the horses to take fright, and they broke into a gallop. In crossing a water-course on the road the coach jerked violently, and the ringbjlt came off. He had then no control, and after going a short distance the coach capsized. The jury returned -the • following verdict: —" That Chas. Nicholls and James Ernest Maitland met their death accidentally; that there is no blame attributable to the driver of the coach."
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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136OAMARU. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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